Study of e(+), e(-) production in elementary and nuclear collisions near the production threshold with HADES

Salabura, P; Agakichiev, G; Agodi, C; Alvarez Pol, H; Balanda, A; Bellia, G; Belver, D; Bielcik, J; Bohmer, M; Bokemeyer, H; Boyard, J; Braun Munzinger, P; Chepurnov, V; Chernenko, S; Christ, T; Coniglione, R; Diaz, J; Djeridi, R; Dohrmann, F; Duran, I; Eberl, T; Emeljanov, V; Fabbietti, L; Fateev, O; Fernandez, C; Finocchiaro, P; Friese, J; Frohlich, I; Fuentes, B; Garzon, J; Gernhauser, R; Golubeva, M; Gonzalez, D; Grosse, E; Guber, F; Hennino, T; Hlavac, S; Hoffmann, J; Holzmann, R; Ierusalimov, A; Lori, I; Jaskula, M; Jurkovic, M; Kampfer, B; Kanaki, K; Karavicheva, T; Koenig, I; Koenig, W; Kolb, B; Kotte, R; Kotulic Bunta, J; Krucken, R; Kugler, A; Kuhn, W; Kulessa, R; Kurepin, A; Kurtukian Nieto, T; Lang, S; Lehner, J; Maiolino, C; Marn, J; Markert, J; Metag, V; Montes, N; Mousa, J; Munch, M; Muntz, C; Naumann, L; Novotny, J; Otwinowski, J; Pachmayer, Y; Panebratsev, Y; Pechenov, V; Perez, T; Pietraszko, J; Pleskac, R; Pospisil, V; Przygoda, W; Rabin, N; Ramstein, B; Reshetin, A; Ritman, J; Rodriguez Prieto, G; Roy Stephan, M; Rustamov, A; Sabin Fernandez, J; Sadovsky, A; Sailer, B; Sanchez, M; Smolyankin, V; Smykov, L; Spataro, STEFANO GIOVANNI; Spruck, B; Stroebele, H; Stroth, J; Sturm, C; Sudol, M; Titov, A; Tlusty, P; Toia, A; Traxler, M; Tsertos, H; Vazquez, A; Volkov, Y; Wagner, V; Walus, W; Winkler, S; Wisniowski, M; Wojcik, T; Wustenfeld, J; Zanevsky, Y; Zumbruch, P.

doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2004.02.037

HADES is a second generation experiment designed to study dielectron production in proton, pion, and heavy ion induced reactions at the GSI accelerator facility in Darmstadt. The physics programme of HADES is focused on in-medium properties of the light vector mesons. In this contribution we present status of the HADES experiment, demonstrate its capability to identify rare dielectron signal, show first experimental results obtained from C + C reactions at 2 A GeV and shortly discuss physics programme of up-coming experimental runs.